Cristian Nápoles

Cristian Nápoles
Cristian Nápoles (2017)
Full name	Cristian Atanay Nápoles
nation	Cuba
birthday	27th November 1998 (age 21)
place of birth	Havana ,  Cuba
size	181 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	Open air: 17.38 m Hall: 17.02 m
status	active
Medal table
CAC games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Central America and Caribbean Games gold Barranquilla 2018 Triple jump  Junior World Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2016 Triple jump  Youth World Championships gold Cali 2015 Triple jump
last change: December 20, 2019

Cristian Atanay Nápoles (born November 27, 1998 in Marianao , Havana ) is a Cuban athlete who specializes in the triple jump .

Athletic career

Cristian Nápoles has been competing in international triple jump competitions since 2014. He achieved a season best of 15.38 m. A year later he qualified for the U18 World Championships in Cali, Colombia. He arrived with the world best performance in his age group of 16.45 m. In the final he won the gold medal with 16.13 m.

Another year later, at the age of 18, he took part in the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He jumped over 16 meters consistently throughout the season and won the silver medal in the final with 16.62 meters. In March 2017, he jumped the 17-meter mark for the first time in a competition in his Cuban homeland, which he then confirmed in other competitions. At the season highlight, the World Championships in London, he moved into the finals with the best width from his qualifying group, in which he finished fourth with a width of 17.16 m. In February 2018, he also jumped the 17-meter mark in the hall for the first time. A month later he entered the World Indoor Championships . There he could not confirm the distance with 16.70 m and finished ninth.

In the summer of 2018, Nápoles won the Central America and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla and the Ibero-American Games, the championship of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, in Trujillo, Peru. In 2019 he then competed at the World Championships in Doha. There he set a new personal best in the final with 17.38 m and thus finished fifth.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Cuba
2015	U18 world championships	Cali	1.	Triple jump	16.13 m
2016	U20 world championships	Bydgoszcz	2.	Triple jump	16.62 m
2017	World championships	London	4th	Triple jump	17.16 m
2018	Indoor world championships	Birmingham	9.	Triple jump	16.70 m
	Central America and Caribbean Games	Barranquilla	1.	Triple jump	17.34 m
2019	World championships	Doha	5.	Triple jump	17.38 m

Personal best

open air

• Triple jump : 17.38 m, September 29, 2019, Doha

Hall

• Triple jump: 17.02 m, February 13, 2018, Liévin

Web links

• Cristian Nápoles in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report from the U18 World Championships in Cali (English)